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From troubadour to game changer

23 July 2012 5:57 AM IST
I do not know whether the Congressmen believe in Shamanism, a magico-religious practice originally found in North Asia and amongst the Inuit tribes of...

India can build Future Infantry Combat Vehicle

18 July 2012 7:14 AM IST
The ministry of defence has recently concluded a feasibility study to decide whether the Future Infantry Combat Vehicle [FICV] can be built within the...

DVC chief promoted friends: staff

13 July 2012 9:44 AM IST
Aggrieved employees of the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, besides the central vigilance commissioner...

Mark II to be a world winner: DRDO

13 July 2012 7:07 AM IST
The advanced Mark II version of the indigenously built, Arjun Main Battle Tank [MBT], is undergoing ‘development trials’ since last month in the...

What was on the man’s mind?

9 July 2012 10:34 PM IST
This op-ed items are often called opinion pieces in news publication parlance. But today’s piece is born not out of the usual certitude that people...

No romance of ‘big ideas’ for new army chief

7 July 2012 8:58 AM IST
It was meant to be an ice-breaking meeting. After all the turbulence the army had gone through, beginning with then army chief’s military secretary...

Antony reviews Army

3 July 2012 7:37 AM IST
For the first time since General Bikram Singh took over office as the chief of army staff [COAS], the Defence Minister, AK Antony, had a meeting on...

Services Corp officers allege promotion bias

29 Jun 2012 5:58 AM IST
Some officers of the Army Services Corp (ASC) have petitioned the chief of army staff General Bikram Singh, urging him to look into the Indian Army’s...

Collapse of political coherence

25 Jun 2012 7:40 AM IST
The resolution to support the Congress party nominee, Pranab Mukherjee, for the presidential polls was put to vote in the Communist Party of India...

Basic trainer for IAF

22 Jun 2012 7:39 AM IST
Almost  three years after the good old Hindustan Piston Trainer 32 [HPT 32] – the staple basic trainer of the Indian Air Force [IAF] – got grounded...

Navy wants competition in ship building

21 Jun 2012 6:32 AM IST
A rift has opened up between the Indian Navy and the defence production department of the Ministry of Defence about how the future warships will be...

Defence PSU won’t tie up with private players

20 Jun 2012 7:41 AM IST
Defence public sector undertakings (PSUs) are changing the rules of the game of joint ventures with private partners. A top source at the Department...
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